Lebanese singer Fairuz. (Credit: AFP)
How can one forget Fairuz’s devastated face at her son’s coffin? That tragic and heart-wrenching image — the embodiment of dignified, silent pain and absolute loneliness — will long haunt Lebanon’s collective memory.But let’s return to her origin story. How did the shy, somewhat awkward young chorister at Radio Lebanon become an unmissable monument — an icon who carried Lebanon’s flag so high across the world, and crowned by Forbes magazine as “the greatest Arab star of all time?" Learn more about the exhibition The divas of the IMA in Beirut: Songs of memory and glamour at the Sursock Museum Nouhad Haddad was not yet 15 when, in the late 1940s, her warm, velvety voice stood out among her peers in Lebanon’s national radio choir. Brothers Ahmad and Mohammad Fleifel, composers of patriotic anthems and founders of the national...
How can one forget Fairuz’s devastated face at her son’s coffin? That tragic and heart-wrenching image — the embodiment of dignified, silent pain and absolute loneliness — will long haunt Lebanon’s collective memory.But let’s return to her origin story. How did the shy, somewhat awkward young chorister at Radio Lebanon become an unmissable monument — an icon who carried Lebanon’s flag so high across the world, and crowned by Forbes magazine as “the greatest Arab star of all time?" Learn more about the exhibition The divas of the IMA in Beirut: Songs of memory and glamour at the Sursock Museum Nouhad Haddad was not yet 15 when, in the late 1940s, her warm, velvety voice stood out among her peers in Lebanon’s national radio choir. Brothers Ahmad and Mohammad Fleifel, composers of patriotic anthems and founders...
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